The Department has 150 permanent staff, 60% professors (90 full, associate and tenure and tenured assistant professors) and 40% technical and administrative staff. It has yearly 130 temporary researchers, among 40 PhD students on various programs for the three years, 25 post-docs, 25 consultants and 40 fellowships.The Deparment develops his research on the topics below.The annual budget is 3 M€, half funded by companies and half from EU, national (ministry of education and research), regional (Tuscany) projects and from other public and private institutions (fundations).In parallel to research activity, on the same topics below, first, second and third level higher education formation and degrees are offered (laurea, laurea magistrale, master e PhD) to 3.000 students on various programs.